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From: Colin Watters on 6 Mar 2010 05:20 "Colin Watters" <boss(a)qomputing.com> wrote in message news:hjfvem$tg4$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > > "carolus" <worNOSPAMPLEASEwor(a)bellsouth.net> wrote in message > news:hjfl1o$qtb$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >> carolus wrote: >> I am trying eternal-septermber. There are around 30 spam >>> messages today on comp.lang.fortran, and 8 from 1/13, but older >>> messages seem pretty clean. >> >> Curiously, my other 4 new subscriptions on eternal-september seem >> totally spam-free (comp.unix.shell, sci.math.num-anal, sci.stat.math, >> sci.math.symbolic, comp.soft-sys.math.scilab). I wonder what is >> different about comp.lang.fortran? > > E-S has been totally spam free for me in about 6 weeks of clf usage, with > 2 exceptions: one about 3 weeks ago, and another just 5 minutes ago. > > I wonder why others users of the same newsgroup from the same server have > different experiences. > > Maybe the spam is added to the server whenever it arrives, then discarded > once per day (or however often) when the spam identification software is > run. So the spam count you see depends on how recently the spam cleaner > has run compared to when you connect. > > Well its just a theory... > Since the above, I have observed a number of Spam messages appear in CLF on E-S, but every time I click on them (in Outlook Express), I get "message has been removed from the server". So something very similar to the above seems to be happening, apparrently more often than once per day. -- Qolin Email: my qname at domain dot com Domain: qomputing
From: Phillip Helbig---undress to reply on 6 Mar 2010 08:05 In article <hmta9f$har$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, "Colin Watters" <boss(a)qomputing.com> writes: > Since the above, I have observed a number of Spam messages appear in CLF on > E-S, but every time I click on them (in Outlook Express), I get "message > has been removed from the server". So something very similar to the above > seems to be happening, apparrently more often than once per day. This is expected behaviour if someone cancels a message. However, not all news servers honour cancel requests (mainly due to potential abuse).
From: Colin Watters on 9 Mar 2010 15:53
"Colin Watters" <boss(a)qomputing.com> wrote in message news:hmta9f$har$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > > "Colin Watters" <boss(a)qomputing.com> wrote in message > news:hjfvem$tg4$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >> >> "carolus" <worNOSPAMPLEASEwor(a)bellsouth.net> wrote in message >> news:hjfl1o$qtb$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... >>> carolus wrote: >>> I am trying eternal-septermber. There are around 30 spam >>>> messages today on comp.lang.fortran, and 8 from 1/13, but older >>>> messages seem pretty clean. >>> >>> Curiously, my other 4 new subscriptions on eternal-september seem >>> totally spam-free (comp.unix.shell, sci.math.num-anal, sci.stat.math, >>> sci.math.symbolic, comp.soft-sys.math.scilab). I wonder what is >>> different about comp.lang.fortran? >> >> E-S has been totally spam free for me in about 6 weeks of clf usage, >> with 2 exceptions: one about 3 weeks ago, and another just 5 minutes >> ago. >> >> I wonder why others users of the same newsgroup from the same server >> have different experiences. >> >> Maybe the spam is added to the server whenever it arrives, then >> discarded once per day (or however often) when the spam identification >> software is run. So the spam count you see depends on how recently the >> spam cleaner has run compared to when you connect. >> >> Well its just a theory... >> > > Since the above, I have observed a number of Spam messages appear in CLF > on E-S, but every time I click on them (in Outlook Express), I get > "message has been removed from the server". So something very similar to > the above seems to be happening, apparrently more often than once per > day. > Huh, today on E-S there were about 45 spams. I should have kept my big mouth shut. -- Qolin Email: my qname at domain dot com Domain: qomputing |